31 maart 1999 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 89e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 01 April 1999
By Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel
Serbian police, which have closed Belgrade's only independent radio station in clampdown on news organizations, have been unable to stop station from putting out news reports on Internet; British Broadcasting Corp broadcasts Web site's content back into Balkans by radio (M)
Date: 01 April 1999
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
R W Apple Jr analysis contends that crisis in Kosovo presents kind of problem that Western democracies, for all their wealth and military might, find most difficult to cope with; maintains that crises like this take place in twilight zone, full of uncertainty, where rules are formulated as participants choose; holds that it is hard to measure who is winning, sometimes harder to know who has won; asserts that one catalyst for Kosovo 'war' is mounting belief in much of Europe and North America that human rights matter more than national sovereignty; says another catalyst is television (M)
Date: 01 April 1999
By Somini Sengupta
Somini Sengupta
Band of demonstrators in New York City protests bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO and US forces; march from Grand Central Terminal to New York Times building, where they complain about editorials that backed NATO bombing; photo (M)
Date: 31 March 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Small but significant minority of Serbs, frustrated by war propaganda that passes for news in Belgrade, spend long hours every day watching satellite television, exchanging E-mail and surfing Internet; they say that NATO's media manipulation is simply more subtle than Belgrade's, that Serbian interests in Kosovo are ignored or trivialized and that Serbs are being demonized to justify bombing; Vesna Kostic, economic journalist and open opponent of Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic, comments; photo (M)
Date: 31 March 1999
Editorial rejects suggestions by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir that media coverage of Amadou Diallo's slaying and atmosphere created by case may may be affecting ability of police to do job and may have led to uptick in crime in New York City; says city should heed study by Vera Institute of Justice, which concluded that vigorous policing and respectful law enforcement should not ignite community anger or limit civil rights and that security does not require bullies or necessitate verbal or physical abuse (M)
Date: 01 April 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Yugoslav Army allows foreign journalists to tour factory in Cacak that was destroyed by air strikes; NATO says factory was used to make ammunition, assertion Serbs dispute; journalists are also given tour of Kragujevac, where large barracks and other military buildings had been destroyed in first night of missile and bomb strikes; photo (M)
Date: 01 April 1999
By John H. Cushman Jr
John Cushman
Pentagon says three American infantrymen patrolling Macedonia's border with Kosovo are missing after reporting by radio that they had been surrounded and were under fire; say soldiers, whose names are not released, might have been captured by Serbian forces; CNN broadcasts videotape from Serbian television showing what Serbs identify as three Americans who were reported missing on March 31; soldiers are part of US First Infantry Division, which had about 350 members in Macedonia for years, remnant of United Nations force that is being withdrawn now that thousands of NATO troops are stationed near border; map (M)
Date: 31 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Technology Solutions Co will dismiss 300 workers as it cuts costs and restructures its businesses and warns that its first-quarter profit will not meet expectations; company will take charge of as much as $12 million in first quarter (S)
Date: 01 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Panamsat Corp tumble 16 percent after it discloses that next year's sales will be $100 million less than forecast (S)
Date: 01 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Primus Telecommunications Group to buy London Telecom Group for equivalent of $50 million in cash, to become third-largest long-distance provider in Canada; Primus will acquire London Telecom's Canadian network, along with assets of Wintel CNC Communications Inc and Wintel CNT Communications Inc (S)